of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes …

of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes …

This profile identifies strengths, challenges and specific areas of action on cancer prevention and care in Germany as … part of the European Cancer Inequalities Registry, a flagship initiative of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan. It provides a … short synthesis of: the national cancer burden; risk factors for cancer (focusing on behavioural and environmental risk …

This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich … effects on health behavior for adolescent daughters, but neither for adolescent sons nor for the health status of newborns. We …'s health behavior, assortative mating, household income, and child¿s schooling track as possible channels of the estimated …

Recent work has found that retirement may lead to improvements in health, although the literature has not yet reached a … differences between studies. The first goal of this paper is to estimate the causal impact of retirement on self-reported health … retirement ages, this paper then estimates how retirement causally affects health and health-related behaviors. We find, in all …

The economic costs of chronic health conditions and severe illnesses like diabetes, coronary heart disease or cancer … these illnesses. Changes in health relevant behaviour may therefore lead to a decline of avoidable illnesses and related … health care costs. In this context, we use German micro data to identify determinants of smoking, drinking and obesity. Our …

declined by up to 20 percent. As this study based on administrative diagnosis data of all statutory health insurance companies …’s health in day care centers and schools in the future, as good health is an important prerequisite for the ability to learn … effectively. In addition, more attention should be paid to the current developments in child health, as it seems likely that …